Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.

~ Judge Robert Sweet  

"From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press,
it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest
in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them...
It is not the business of government to suppress
real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine."

~ Justice Tom C. Clark  

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's
will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty,
but to have a slave of his own."

~ Sir Richard Francis Burton  

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order."

~ Adolf Hitler

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is the highest political end."

~ Lord Acton  

"You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?' "

~ Neal Boortz  

"I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty,
and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty,
in the phrase that is common in the sporting world,
'A free field and no favor.'"

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"The worst tyrants are those which
establish themselves in our own breasts."

~ William Ellery Channing  

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees --
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

~ John Dryden  

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

~ Plutarch  

"The Earth is degenerating today.
Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents,
every man wants to write a book, and
it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."

~ Assyrian Tablet  

"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

"Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history
of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes."

~ Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort